Toner image fixing device
A toner image fixing device which has a satisfactory self-stripping ability to suppress the formation of creases of an envelope, and to prevent the abrasion of the elastic layers of a pair of toner image fixing rollers. In the fixing device, surface strain .di-elect cons.h in the circumferential direction of the first elastic layer of a first toner image fixing roller which comes in contact with a non-fixed toner image on a recording medium, and surface strain .di-elect cons.p in the circumferential direction of the second elastic layer of a second toner image fixing roller are defined by:.di-elect cons.h.gtoreq.0.0583 (.DELTA..di-elect cons.).sup.4 -0.6 (.DELTA..di-elect cons.).sup.3 +2.1917(.DELTA..di-elect cons.).sup.2 -3.65(.DELTA..di-elect cons.)+6where .di-elect cons.h<6%, .DELTA..di-elect cons..ltoreq.3% and .DELTA..di-elect cons.=.di-elect cons.h-.di-elect cons.p.
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Claims
1. A toner image fixing device comprising first and second toner image fixing rollers rotatable to each other in a state that said rollers are pressed each other; and a heating source contained in one of said fixing rollers; the surfaces of said first and second fixing rollers being covered with elastic layers, respectively, and a recording medium bearing a non-fixed toner image being passed through a nip between said first and second rollers to thereby fix the non-fixed toner image on said recording medium, wherein surface strain.di-elect cons.h in the circumferential direction of the elastic layer of said first roller which comes in contact with the non-fixed toner image on said recording medium, and surface strain.di-elect cons.p in the circumferential direction of the elastic layer of said second fixing roller are defined by:
- where.di-elect cons.h<6%,.DELTA..di-elect cons..ltoreq.3% and.DELTA..di-elect cons.=.di-elect cons.h-.di-elect cons.p.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Oct 16, 1996
Date of Patent: Jan 13, 1998
Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. (Tokyo)
Inventors: Hideo Saito (Ebina), Kazumi Inaba (Ebina), Hideaki Sekiguchi (Ebina), Keitaro Sonoguchi (Ebina)
Primary Examiner: Robert Beatty
Law Firm: Oliff & Berridge
Application Number: 8/732,878